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Church

Grenagh North, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Grenagh North, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Grenagh North
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.01319, -8.61382
SMR number
CO051-106002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In N half of graveyard (CO051-106001-). Remains of rectangular church (int: E-W c. 22.5m; 6.55m N-S); all that now stand are ivy-clad E gable, E end of S wall (L 13.5m) and NW corner; N wall reduced to sod-covered foundations. In centre of E gable is window with double ogee-headed light, sunken spandrels, mullion missing. Wall press at E end of S wall; wide ope (wth 3.36m) immediatly to its W shows signs of recent repair work. Embedded in S wall is rotary quern stone; on ground, just inside S wall, is cut-limestone arch stone, with chamfered edge, from door surround; in graveyard head of single ogee light, with sunken spandrels. Surviving remains of late-medieval character. Formerly parish church of Grenagh; in ruins by 1615 (Brady 1867, vol. 2, 229).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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